Winter speaking prompts that also work as essay questions, from favourite winter activities to whether snow is a pleasure or a nuisance. Ready-made material for a speaking lesson or a piece of written homework.
The same prompts do double duty. Spoken, they are a speaking game – what you like about winter, the best thing you have done in the snow, whether you would move somewhere warm. Written, they are essay questions with the argument already half-built.
Using them in that order is the useful part: students who have argued a point aloud write it far more easily afterwards, because the vocabulary and the reasons are already found. The speaking round is not a warm-up for the writing, it is the planning stage.